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John Coltrane's Tone Circle

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166 points jim-jim-jim | 1 comments | 03 Sep 25 12:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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pessimizer ◴[03 Sep 25 16:12 UTC] No.45117446[source]▶
Nothing upper-middle class people love more than worshiping dead black Americans, while treating their descendants like dangerous parasites. They were so cool, such genius! I can't wait to be the authority on them, and make more on redefining them than they ever saw in their lives, or to buy the new product that no black American makes a dime from.

One day, every black American will be gone, and all that will be left of them are statues that everybody holds in very high regard.

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1. rectang ◴[03 Sep 25 17:03 UTC] No.45118107[source]▶
Deification of artists in theory writing is commonplace, as is aspiring to be seen as an authority. The subject matter could have been Mozart, or Picasso — you'd see the same phenomena.

I agree that we have some distance to go in ensuring that wealth moves to the communities that created the art and the value, but absent evidence that this author has been "treating their descendants like dangerous parasites", I think they're catching strays from you.